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Abstract : |
The pervasiveness of computer networks, together with the availability of wireless links, are steering distributed systems towards scenarios where computing is increasingly decentralized, decoupled, and dynamically reconfigurable. The popularity of and demand for applications that exploit mobile and peer-to-peer interactions is a symptom of such change. Nevertheless, by and large these applications are being built in an ad hoc manner, and often with architectures that, by sticking to the traditional client-server paradigm, do not fully capture and support the peculiar requirements of the new scenario. In this paper, we present a new middleware, called PeerWare, whose design is geared towards peer-to-peer and mobile systems. The paper is a presentation of the model underlying PeerWare, followed by a discussion of its architectural implication, and by a description of the current implementation e#orts., |
